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PhD projects offered - IPP winter call 2026/2027
The IPP offers projects from participating groups located at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) and the University Medical Center Mainz (UMC).
Below you can find a list of group leaders offering a position and descriptions of the offered PhD projects. Note that not every group participating in the IPP offers a position in every call.
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases - Dorothee Dormann (JGU)
Controlling transposable elements - René Ketting (IMB)
High Resolution Fluorescence Imaging of Protein Plasticity - Edward Lemke (JGU)
Computational approaches to study the role of clustered phosphorylation and multivalency in cell signaling - Katja Luck (IMB)
Deciphering the disorder-mediated interactome of the BAF-associated ARID proteins with implications in colorectal cancer - Katja Luck (IMB)
Molecular Immunology: Modelling myeloid cell activation and exhaustion on a single-cell scale - Johannes Mayer (UMC)
Molecular Immunology: Defining trained immunity in dendritic cells and their progenitors - Johannes Mayer (UMC)
Regulatory T (Treg) cell fitness - Ilgiz Mufazalov/Ari Waisman (UMC)
Condensates in Transcription Regulation - Sandra Schick (IMB)
Deciphering the role of the BAF-associated ARID proteins in colorectal cancer - Sandra Schick (IMB)
Causal multi-omics modeling of disease biology - Vincent ten Cate (UMC)
Synthetic Cells that Transcribe: Active Transcriptional Condensates in DNA Protonuclei - Andreas Walther (JGU)
Molecular interactions in the mammalian circadian clock - Eva Wolf (JGU)
Decoding cell lineages in a miniature flowering plant - Shuqing Xu (JGU)
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